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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldWe're learnding.
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    5 days ago

    Here is the thing… You can work on both of those. Literacy is not capped by your intelligence, unless you are exceptionally challenged, like mentally unfit to live by yourself challenged. You can read more books, and journal articles, and expand your reading ability.

    IQ is mostly bullshit. The test can help identify if you have a disability, but it’s relatively worthless for determining how intelligent you can actually be. You can practice pattern recognition and then take an IQ test, but all that means is that you are good at recognizing patterns. There are plenty of “High IQ” people who can’t figure out basic shit, like how to put on a spare tire.

    So don’t feel bad if you don’t score well on those tests. They only measure how you did one time on one test.


  • Part of this statistic is because we have a high immigrant population that doesn’t speak English as their primary language.

    Let’s not blame the immigrants for this.

    First, there is no official language of the US. Literacy tests can be administered in Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, or whatever language the subject predominantly uses.

    Second, the US does not have unusually high ratio of immigrant. That’s a lie that had been created by right-wing bigots. The US is about 14% immigrant, which is not unusual compared to European countries.

    Anecdotally, most of the complete dipshits I know are born in the US. The people that manage to immigrate are the individuala who can read and write well enough to understand immigration documents (with the help of a lawyer), and have a decent chunk of money, or necessary skillset to sustain their finances in the US.